Example sentences of "worse than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucien could imagine nothing worse than trying to eat in front of these people . |
| 2 | Humane destruction is not easy to face , but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth . |
| 3 | Anyone who wants to learn to paint with oils could do far worse than follow the advice of ‘ the fastest knife in the West ’ , Nancy Kominsky , as MIRANDA FELLOWS found out |
| 4 | Thinking about his book was almost worse than thinking about Elinor . |
| 5 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 6 | She had no idea of how she might use it : draining him of pity would be worse than draining him of money , and she would drown in guilt . |
| 7 | There 's nuffink worse than watchin' people workin' around yer . ’ |
| 8 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 9 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |
| 10 | Output : The decline in output was greater than seen in the July survey and worse than had been anticipated , with a balance of 20pc of firms reporting a fall . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see that going to the pictures is any worse than getting drunk . |
| 12 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 13 | Worse than calling him a Jew , |
| 14 | It 's worse than organizing several zoos ( several zoos ) , |
| 15 | It 's worse than organizing several zoos ( several zoos ) , |
| 16 | When faced with the choice of believing or not believing , Pascal , a gambling man , reckoned that the consequences of not believing and being wrong ( eternal damnation ) were infinitely worse than believing and being wrong , so he chose to believe . |
| 17 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 18 | ‘ Gawd Blimey , it 's worse than living in Scotland Yard here . |
| 19 | She opened it , the noise hit her like something solid , worse than breaks she thought grimly . |
| 20 | What could be worse than moving to Chislehurst ? |
| 21 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them . |
| 22 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them |
| 23 | Even worse than Trespassing on the Railway Line . |
| 24 | To grow old in vice was worse than to die . |
| 25 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 26 | It 's worse than listening to the cricket match . |
| 27 | He goes out alone … and sometimes he goes to the bank and draws out large sums of money … it 's worse than dealing with a child … the most wearing part is the mental strain , not the washing and things like that ; it 's the having to take the lead all the time … [ 24 ; 1H I can stand the strain at the moment , but I ca n't say for how long . |
| 28 | That was the worst thing , worse than stealing a ring , or even the Will . |
| 29 | ‘ I think that was the worst moment of my life , even worse than realising that poor Héloise had gone after you — and how near the edge she really was . ’ |
| 30 | It was worse than taking his own life . |